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Rural grocers in Minnesota feel the pinch amid stiff competition Minnesota supermarkets have seen increased sales during the pandemic, but small-town grocery stores haven t.  February 20, 2021 8:00am Text size Copy shortlink: But rural groceries, which perhaps needed that bump the most, did not see it. Before the pandemic hit, a University of Minnesota Extension survey found that nearly half of grocery-store owners in towns with 2,500 or fewer residents worried their stores would close down within five years. The coronavirus pandemic and the resulting trends of people shopping closer to home and buying local have given mom-and-pop grocers some optimism but have not erased the challenges.

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